The winners of the 2018 Whiting Awards for emerging writers. Visit www.whiting.org for complete details on this year’s recipients. (Beowulf Sheehan/Whiting Foundation)

The Whiting Foundation presented its 2018 Whiting Awards to ten emerging writers in drama, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry in New York City on March 21. The prestigious awards are made annually on the basis of “early accomplishment and the promise of great work to come.”

In keeping with longstanding tradition, each winner received a new Library of America volume in addition to a $50,000 prize. As it has in the past, the Whiting Foundation’s selection committee matched each winner with a title in the Library of America series based on a sensed affinity or the hope that the winners will discover something valuable in the LOA book.

The 2018 Whiting Award winners and their categories are listed below, accompanied by the titles of the LOA volumes they were awarded. (Each book title links to the relevant page on our site.) More details about this year’s winners, along with samples of their work, are available at The Paris Review.

As always, Library of America is proud to play a supporting role in this valuable source of support for the literary community. We salute this year’s winners—and hope that their LOA books will be a source of inspiration and encouragement going forward.